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Happy New Year, everyone!  I apologize for having forgotten to post challenges in more than a month.  I give you three new challenges: Postponed But Not Forgotten by razzamatazz73, Model by KaraThis, and Stuck and Not Alone by flonkertonxx. 

Just to be clear, if you've posted challenges without sending them to us via email, I have had to delete them since it goes against our policy.  We want to give everyone a chance to have their challenge featured on the main page to give it the attention it deserves, so we ask everyone to email us their challenge and not post them directly.

Stay tuned for a special challenge later this month!



--Morning Angel on January 02, 2008 10:54 pm 0 Comments
WGA Strike
I have had to delete from the archive a few WGA strike-related material in the last few days. While I understand that people are upset, this type of writing clearly falls outside the scope of the archive as per the submission guidelines. Any story posted here that is not fanfiction will be deleted as indicated in the archive rules. Hence, I would please ask you to refrain from posting your letters here. If you wish to have a discussion related to the strike, feel free to join this thread on the boards.

--Morning Angel on November 14, 2007 10:56 pm 0 Comments
Challenges

Firstly, I have seen people have been adding challenges themselves. As we have mentioned many times, we ask people email us their ideas instead so I have removed those challenges posted, and added them to our list.

Two new challenges:

1) Jan's New Job. (and it's not a boob job. ;)) This challenge was suggested by belsum. Jan takes a new job, and it's in the Dunder Mifflin Business Park. What's her new gig?

2) Jim To The Rescue. This challenge was suggested by Jenninthecity. Pam's a modern woman who can take care of herself, but sometimes Jim just can't help himself. Someone's bugging Pam and Jim comes to the rescue.

By the way, we also have old Halloween challenges in case you are looking for ideas for Halloween-themed stories: Haunted House and Zombie Attack.



--Morning Angel on October 31, 2007 12:45 am 0 Comments
Downtime and Donating

There is some upcoming downtime this week due to our host doing some emergency maintenance.

It will be this Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 10:00PM Pacific time, and according to the host downtime should be minimal.

Eh sucks a bit, but these things need to be done.

Also, you can read information about donating to MTT here.

 



--sicokitty on October 18, 2007 04:55 am 0 Comments
In Case The Server Ever Goes Down Again...
(although I will think a lot of positive thoughts so it doesn't!), we have a LJ that will keep you updated: http://community.livejournal.com/mtt_status/  Feel free to join or watch that community. Smiley

--Morning Angel on October 13, 2007 06:20 pm 0 Comments
We Are Back!

We had hosting problems for the last week, but we are back with our own private server so everything should be back running smoothly. Thank you all for your patience, and thanks to sicokitty for all her awesomeness and hard work in bringing this back up.

The only bad news is that hosting just became a whole lot more expensive. Many people have offered to help, which we really appreciate so much. We will be putting back up a donate button soon for those who wish to contribute. :)



--Morning Angel on October 11, 2007 08:24 pm 10 Comments
Two New Challenges

With just one week before the premiere (Woohoo!), I've added two new challenges: Kevin's Wedding, submitted by Nanreg, and Proust Questionnaire, as proposed by Raj.

As always, if you have challenge ideas, feel free to email us by clicking the "contact us" button or post them on our boards.



--Morning Angel on September 19, 2007 08:48 pm 1 Comments
Two New Challenges

I've posted 2 new challenges: Drunk Michael submitted by snozdoodle and Pam's Pregnancy by belsum.

As always, if you have challenge ideas, feel free to email us by clicking the "contact us" button or post them on our boards.

--Morning Angel on September 02, 2007 06:55 am 0 Comments
New URL?

A poll about whether or not MTT should get a new URL is posted here .

Unfortunately, you will need to register there in order to vote on the poll. I was unable to get the poll module here to work sadly. :(



--sicokitty on August 16, 2007 07:00 pm 0 Comments
55-Word Challenges
I know the 55-word challenges got many people to write so they are back by popular demand! Thanks to the MTT chatroom people for the thematic suggestions. Thus, I bring you two choices: 55 Words To Leave Scranton & 55: The Kandy Edition. I hope many people try to participate this time too.

--Morning Angel on August 05, 2007 06:22 am 0 Comments
Ribbons
Just a quick word to let people know that the new admins have taken over ribbon duties as a group. I am currently more busy in managing the boards so I have scaled back a bit my involvement with daily management of the archive itself. But as always if you have questions about any board matter, please email us at morethanthat1 at gmail.com

--Morning Angel on July 27, 2007 08:56 pm 0 Comments
Two New Challenges

This week, I am adding 2 new challenges. The first one, First Days, comes from atomic_eyes. We've seen a lot of Pam's first day stories but what about Michael? Dwight? Angela? Jim? Kelly? Write about the first days at Dunder-Mifflin!

The second challenge was suggested by iciebloo. It's called Meet The Parents. Write about the first time Jim meets Pam's parents or the first time when Pam meets Jim's parents.



--Morning Angel on July 27, 2007 06:46 pm 0 Comments
New Admins
I'd just like to draw everyones attention to the newest additions to the MTT Admin team:



Angryhaiku

Azlin

Cousin Mose

falldownmore

geinnob

GodInThisChilis

pampongchamp




Go easy on them while they learn the ropes of the job!

--andi on July 17, 2007 02:28 am 1 Comments
Help Wanted

We are currently looking for members to help us manage the MTT fanfic archive. The job of administrator on the archive involves anything from providing help to our members, making sure stories are properly organized and submission rules followed, and ensuring the general pleasant atmosphere of the archive.

Please email us at morethanthat1 at gmail.com if you are interested. Please don't leave your name in the comments. It will be easier for us if everyone emails us. Thanks.



--sicokitty and Morning Angel on July 14, 2007 06:14 am 0 Comments
New Challenges

Two new challenges this week:

1) Let's Get Physical submitted by Jess: Dunder Mifflin has a new employee gym. All types of hilarity and locker room awkwardness ensue. Of course Michael probably wears something ridiculous and ends up hurting himself.

2) Summer Jobs submitted by Cousin Mose: What did Dunder-Mifflin employees do for work as teenagers or during college? Did Jim have a paper route? Did Dwight sell beets door to door? Did Angela ever work at Hot Dog on a Stick? It's summertime...go get a job!



--Morning Angel on July 13, 2007 08:01 pm 1 Comments
Happy First Anniversary, MTT
MTT is turning one on July 9th. I don't think any of us had any idea it would grow so quickly. We are nearing our 2000th story archived!

We would like to acknowledge all the time and energy numerous administrators have put in over the year. Thank you for your invaluable help. In addition, thanks to all of you, authors and readers, for making this a fun community to be in. We are grateful people decided to post their stories here, and we hope you all continue writing, reading, and reviewing Office fanfic.

Personally, I would like to thank sicokitty for all the hard work she put into designing this site. You've done a fabulous job! :)



--Morning Angel on July 08, 2007 11:07 am 6 Comments
Remember to Enter Your Story in The Appropriate Challenge
Don't forget to put a label on stories you enter into challenges for ease of finding all the stories generated by a given prompt. Once you've posted a story, enter it as a reply to a challenge by clicking on "Respond to the challenge" link below the summary of the challenge. It will then bring up the list of all stories you've written. Just put a checkmark next to the one that you want to mark as a response to the challenge.

--Morning Angel on July 01, 2007 06:35 am 0 Comments
New Challenges

I've posted 2 new challenges: 55 submitted by thewillydude and Kelly's Revenge by belsum.

As always, if you have challenge ideas, feel free to email us by clicking the "contact us" button or post them on our boards.



--Morning Angel on June 30, 2007 08:54 am 2 Comments
Ribbons

There were quite a few questions about the ribbons at the TWoP boards, so I thought I would post my clarifications here too.

The moderators at MTT, most often me, award the ribbons you see besides some stories. We don't have any specific criteria to do so. We don't meet in committee to do this. I pick stories that I think are worth reading, but people are free to disagree with my picks. In fact, I expect that many people do. I will read many different types of stories, but certain types appeal more to my tastes than others so that certainly influences my choices. Reviews are your way as readers to lavish praise on those stories that you think are worth reading. You can also take time to recommend those stories to others on message boards or on your blog.

As xoxoxo mentioned on TWoP, the ribbons are just a perk for the admins of the archive, probably one of the few fun things to do amongst all the work this archive generates for us. I don't want this to turn into the Toby to my Michael Scott (as in "Every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way.")

I hope that clarifies some things. :)



--Morning Angel on June 29, 2007 04:26 am 16 Comments
Donate to help MTT stay up for another year!


It's almost that time of the year, when MTT's hosting bill is due. It costs approximately $130/yr to maintain the site's current hosting package. So even if you are only able to donate $1, that's OK, every dollar counts towards keeping MTT alive for another year.

 

We're all set for another year!! Any surplus donations will be credited to the following year, and here's hoping The Office, and Jam, will still be around that long!!



--sicokitty on June 25, 2007 07:48 pm 4 Comments
New Challenges

Two new challenges to propose to our writers this week: Valentine Poker (submitted by Too Late Kev) and All About a Peripheral Character (suggested by McGigi).

Don't forget, there are plenty of challenges just waiting to be answered such as Wedding Week (submitted by sorano), Arabian Nights (suggested by Susan), Paintball (suggested by lizzy559).



--Morning Angel on June 17, 2007 07:37 pm 0 Comments
Two New Challenges
I've added 2 new challenges: 1) Office Fiction Writers was submitted by Azlin. This challenge asks you to write a story as if you were a character of The Office writing fiction. Intriguing, no? 2) Daddy Jim is an idea by sarabell, who would like to read more about what kind of dad Jim would be.

--Morning Angel on June 03, 2007 10:07 am 0 Comments
New Challenge
It has been a while since I added a challenge, but since it is now summer hiatus, I'll try to add challenges on a more regular basis to throw mew ideas out there. Please do email us your challenge ideas or post them on the forums.

Today's new challenge was submitted by Lizzy559: Paintball.



--Morning Angel on May 20, 2007 02:10 pm 0 Comments
A Thousand Thanks!

We have reached 1000 members at MTT today. (In case you are curious, dunderjim was member #1000.) We never expected the archive to get that big. We hope you have enjoyed your stay here so far, and thanks to all of you for making this a fun community to be in. We'd also like to thank everyone who has lent a hand along the way to set up, organize, moderate or give suggestions... You helped us make the fanfic archive what it is today.

Cheers!



--Morning Angel on May 12, 2007 02:11 pm 4 Comments
Server Trouble
MTT has been grumpy in the last few days. We are looking into what is going on. We hope we can resolve the situation soon. Thanks for your patience!


--Morning Angel on May 09, 2007 08:18 pm 2 Comments